Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-29
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der storm. Suddenly there was a binding
fash Of lightning which rendered her in-
sensible for two hours. The house was not
struck, neither did any of the inmates ex-
perience any shock.
"A marble quarry sixty miles from Car.
son, Navada, was completely destroyed
by the recent earthquake in the West.
The marble was broken into cubes not
over a foot square. The ledge was over
five miles long and 400 feet wide, contain
ing a fine grade of marble ranging in shade
from pure white to black. The quarry
was valued at a million dollars.
= The New York Herald has renewed,
with vigor, its suggestions in regard to the
candidates in the next campaign. 1t says:
"On the next Presidential ticket q whole
souled s%outherner should have the second
place.. That will make the administration
national, bury the last remnant OF the old
feud and bring the north and south shoulder
to shoulder for all time to come"
The war department. is informed that
1O6 persons successfully passed both the
physical and mental examinations for ad-
mission to the West Point Military Acad-'
envy, as cadets. Six applicants failed to
pass the physical examination; 81 failed
inathe mental examination, n 60 failed
to report. The four candidates at large
designated by the President were success
full.
The most destructive fire that has &C.
cured at Louisville, KY, in years, broke
out in the tobacco quarter of the city early
last Saturday morning. The entire square
between Main and Market and Ninth m
Tenth streets, was the scene OF the tire, ana
twoacres of buildings, with their contents,
were lost. The loss is estimated at fully
half a million dollars, including the value
of five thousand hogsheads ct tobacco.
News of a wholesale slaughter comes
from Ringgold, Ga. Farmers Dennis ana
Clark quarreled over the result OF a Jaw
suit, and Dennis, to q v his life, thrust a
knife into Clsrk's throat. Clark's father
and brother, who witnessed the fight, then
attacked Dennis, each armed with q club.
Dennis stabbed the brother, inficting. a
fatal wound, and turning, plunged the
knife into the elder Clark's heart, leaving
the knife sticking there. Dennis fled.
-Ferd. Warde, formerly of the banking
house of Grant & Warde, and who seems
to be the scapegoat of that institution, is
setting type in Sing Sing. He is the only
workman of this class in the penitentiary,
and besides setting type, corrects the gal,
leys, locks up the forms, takes proofs
does the press work. Ferd. is on the right
line now, and his restoration to the ways
Of the honest and upright is being gradu-
ally worked out.
-Governors are to be chosen this year in
Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts
and Ohio. Kentucky will vote on the lst
Of August I; the other States in November.
Rhode Island has already elected its GOV.
ernor New York and Pennsylvania Will
also elect minor state officers in November,
and these elections will be the most i'm
portant to the country at large OF all those
to occur. Prohibition and Labor ndl-
dates will be in the field in both the last
named states.
"A Raleigh, N. c., dispatch says: Miss
Rosenthal was run over by the fast mail on
the Atlantic Coast Line and killed last
Thursday evening. She was riding IN a
buggy with q young man: The morse Pc
came unmanageable and backed upon the
track before the advancing train. The
young manjumped out, better to manage
him, and the lady jumped out on the other
side. fell on the track and was caught by
the train, which so crushed her That sne
died within an hour.
An unknown suicide was found in Je-
rome Park N. Y, last Sunday. When the
coroner investigated the case he found
that the man had tried to hang himself
with a heavy string which broke. AS he
fell his foot caught in the crotch OF the
tree. His head struck the trunk in the
fall, causing hemorrhage at the mouth.
He hung suspended by his loot until dis
covered, A letter was found addressed to
M. M. Amarket, Edgefeld G. H., S. e.,
with FIVE dollars in money. He was not
dressed like a laboring man.
- peculiar sentence, which is virtually
Punishment from the United States, is at
tracing interest at Canton, Ohio. Stanis-
laus Loichat is in Jail, charged with stab
bling DR.. E. o. Portman with INTENT to kill.
It was proposed by the prosecution that II
the friends of Loichat would send him to
France, where he would stay and never
return, he would be released; otherwise
he would be tried at once. In case he ever
returned the indictment for stabbing with
intent to kill would be revived. The con-
ditions were agreed upon by his friends
and on Thursday he started to serve his
term of Punishment.
Alfred Blount, a wife murderer, was
hanged at St. Louis at 6.35 last Friday
morning. Life was extinct in six min
utes and fifteen seconds after the drop fell.
His neck was broken. He was thirty-two
wears old, a hunchback, and maintained
that his wife despised him because Of his
deformity. He was tried in Decembera and
the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment
in April. At Independence, Mo-, Ed
wards Sneed was hanged on Friday after
noon for the deliberate murder of a boon
companion named Loomis. Sneed was
perfectly self possessed, and no incident
occurred.
- The Douglassville, Ca, Star, tells the
following snake story: GA short time ago
Mr.. Aderhold, of Douglasville, saw a
large black snake drive a partridge away
from her nest and swallow the eggs. A
few days later Mr.. McElathers of the
same town, saw a convey OF young part
ridges fly out, one by one, from the snakes
mouth and gather around it. They had
evidently just been Matched from the eggs
in the snakes belly, and the. reptile SEEM
ed very fond of them. Not long after this
Mr.. Butler observed the snake gliding
through a patch of oats and picking the
kernels from the out-heads. After filling
its mouth the snake would drop the kerr
nels on the ground to feed the young part
ridges as they followed it."
Writing on the subject OF The Nor
mon Propaganda" in the Andover RevieW,
D. L, Leonard, who is a resident of Salt
Lake City, finds the striking success of the
Latter-Day Saints in making proselytes
n of the most startling phenomena of
the age. Over 50O,0O0 people in the New
World and the Old have, since 1880, accep-
ted the teaching Of Joseph Smith. The
missionaries have had easy work in con-
yertine vast numbers of the more ignor-
ant classes and in persuading them to flee
to "Zion." The missionaries who were
sent abroad were instructed to withhold
certain truths" Chose regarding plural
marriage, for example,) and to answer all